January 8 - 28, 2024

21-Day Prayer and Fasting

Why Fast?

Why you should fast?

Fasting has the potential for significant impact in our lives. Through fasting and prayer, the Holy Spirit can transform your life personally and God can speak to you in new and dynamic ways.

Fasting and prayer can also work on a much grander scale. According to Scripture, personal experience and observation, we are convinced that when God’s people fast with a proper Biblical motive – seeking God’s face not His hand – with a broken, repentant, and contrite spirit, God will hear from heaven and heal our lives, our churches, our communities, our nation and world. Fasting and prayer can bring about revival – a change in the direction of our nation, the nations of earth and the fulfillment of the Great Commission.

Biblical fasting is, very simply, denying oneself something for the sake of seeking and honoring God. Pastor Stovall Weems says that “prayer is connecting with God; fasting is disconnecting ourselves from the world.” That’s a great way to describe the feeling. In addition to food, you can also fast from other things that keep you connected to the world. These may include television, social media, online games and more.

If you do not already know of the power and importance of fasting, here are some very important facts:

Fasting was an expected discipline in both the Old and New Testament eras. For example, Moses fasted at least two recorded 40-day periods. Jesus fasted 40 days and reminded His followers to fast, “when you fast,” not if you fast.
• Fasting and prayer can restore the loss of the “first love” for your Lord and result in a more intimate relationship with Christ.
• Fasting is a Biblical way to truly humble yourself in the sight of God (Psalm 35:13; Ezra 8:21). King David said, “I humble myself through fasting.”
• Fasting enables the Holy Spirit to reveal your true spiritual condition, resulting in brokenness, repentance and a transformed life.
• The Holy Spirit will quicken the Word of God in your heart and His truth will become more meaningful to you!
• Fasting can transform your prayer life into a richer and more personal experience.
• Fasting can result in a dynamic personal revival in your own life – and make you a channel of revival to
others.

If you fast, you will find yourself being humbled. You will discover more time to pray and seek God’s face. And as He leads you to recognize and repent of unconfessed sin, you will experience special blessings from God.

THEME: ONE ANOTHER…PRAYING THROUGH CHALLENGES TOGETHER

“The Lord reconciles us not only to himself, but to each other, creating one-another love out of one-another pain.”

DAY 21 - January 28, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD NOT GRUMBLE AGAINST ONE ANOTHER

JAMES 5:9

Do not grumble against one another, Brethren, lest you be condemned. Behold the judge is standing at the door!

There are obvious benefits to Confession. The process allows us To experience God’s forgiveness. .

DAY 20 - January 27, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD NOT SPEAK EVIL OF ONE ANOTHER

JAMES 4:11

Do not speak evil of one of another, Brethren he who speaks evil Of a brother, and judges his brother, Speaks evil of the law, and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not A doer of the law but a judge.

Believers are encouraged to Show stamina without grumbling.

DAY 19 - January 26, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD CONSIDER ONE ANOTHER

HEBREWS 10:24

And let us consider one another so as To stir up love and good works…

We may have differences between Each other, but we are never To attack one another.

DAY 18 - January 25, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD EDIFY ONE ANOTHER

1 THESSALONIANS 5:11

Therefore comfort each other And edify one another, Just as you also are doing.

If the church is anything at all, It should be stimulating never boring. .

DAY 17 - January 24, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD COMFORT ONE ANOTHER

1 THESSALONIANS 4:18

Therefore comfort one another With these words.

It’s hard to function, especially In the body of Christ without The encouragement of others.

DAY 16 - January 23, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD NOT LIE TO ONE ANOTHER

COLOSSIANS 3:9

Do not lie to one another, Seeing that you have put off The old man with his deeds…

God doesn’t expect us to refrain from Grief or mourning, but to “sorrow Not as others who have no hope.

DAY 15 - January 22, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD SUBMIT TO ONE ANOTHER

EPHESIANS 5:21, 1 PETER 5:5

… Submitting to one another In the fear of God.

The most deadly lies of all, However, are the lies we live. .

DAY 14 - January 21, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER

EPHESIANS 4:32

And be kind to one another, Tenderhearted, forgiving one another, Just as God in Christ has forgiven you.

God, give us churches where Christ Is in charge and people are in the Habit of submitting to one another. .

DAY 13 - January 20, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD BEAR WITH ONE ANOTHER

EPHESIANS 4:2; COLOSSIANS 3:13

…With all lowliness and gentleness, With long suffering, Bearing with one another in love…

Kindness in our churches not only Sympathizes with the needy and Hurting, but also it seeks to Relieve the hurt and meet the need. .

DAY 12 - January 19, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD BEAR ONE ANOTHER’S BURDENS

GALATIANS 6:2

Bear one another’s burdens, And so fulfill the law of Christ.

To bear with each other takes A deliberate act of the will. It doesn’t happen naturally

DAY 11 - January 18, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD NOT ENVY ONE ANOTHER

GALATIANS 5:26

Let us not become conceited, Provoking one another, Envying one another. .

When someone shares a burden with us,
We are on holy ground and carry a sacred trust.

DAY 10 - January 17, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD NOT PROVOKE ONE ANOTHER

GALATIANS 5:26

Let us not become conceited, Provoking one another, Envying one another. .

Envy is the effluvium that oozes From the constant comparison Of oneself to others.

DAY 9 - January 16, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD NOT BITE/DEVOUR/CONSUME ONE ANOTHER

GALATIANS 5:15

But if you bite and devour One another, take need that you Are not consumed by one another.

The nature of understanding is Linked with a patient spirit Towards one another.

Day 8 January 15, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD SERVE ONE ANOTHER

GALATIANS 5:13

For you brethren, have been called To liberty, only do not use liberty As an occasion for the flesh, But by love serve one another.

You cannot accept Jesus as Savior and reject him as Lord. We either serve one another, or Fall into hopeless decay and ruin.

Day 7 January 14, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER

1 CORINTHIANS 12:25

… that there should be no schism, In the body, but that The members should have The same care one for another

You cannot accept Jesus as Savior and reject him as Lord. We either serve one another, or Fall into hopeless decay and ruin.

Day 6 January 13, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD WAIT FOR ONE ANOTHER

1 CORINTHIANS 11:33

Therefore, my brethren When you come together to eat, Wait for one another.

One way we care for each other is Through attentive listening, To feel Cared for is to feel listened to.

Day 5 January 12, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD GREET ONE ANOTHER

ROMANS 16:16, 1 CORINTHIANS 16:20, 1 PETER 5:14

Greet one another with an holy kiss, The churches of Christ greet you. &nbsp

If God is so courteous with us, Would it not behoove us to trust One another the same way and “wait for one another”?

Day 4 January 11, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD ADMONISH ONE ANOTHER

ROMANS 15:14

And I myself am, also confident Concerning you my brethren, That you also are full of goodness, Filled with all knowledge, Able also to admonish one another.

Principles are biblical and timeless. Methods are cultural and temporal.

Day 3 January 10, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD RECEIVE ONE ANOTHER

ROMANS 15:7

Therefore receive one another, Just as Christ also received us, To the glory of God.

Admonishment in the body of Christ must be both confrontive And caring, depending on the Nature of the problem.

Day 2 January 9, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD BE OF THE SAME MIND WITH ONE ANOTHER

Romans 15:5

Now may the God of patience And consolation grant you To be like minded toward one another, According to Christ Jesus…

Accepting one another doesn’t Stop once we’ve shaken hands During the “Welcome Time” in Sunday morning worship.

Day 1 January 8, 2024

PRAY THAT WE WOULD NOT JUDGE ONE ANOTHER

Romans 14:13

Therefore let us not judge One another anymore, But rather resolve this, That no one put a stumbling block or A cause to fall in his brother’s way.

The God who created every Snowflake to be unique does not Demand that all children look and Act the same. God loves variety!